Illuminated displaying device



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Patented Nov. 8, 1927.

UNITED STATES SIMON LUBARSKY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

ILLUMINATED DISPLAYING DEVICE.

Application filed December 27, 1926. Serial No. 157,378.

This invention relates to improvements in displaying devices and hasparticular reference to means for illuminating indicia or othercharacters which it is desired to display.

The principal object of this invention is to produce a device which willaccommodate a series of indicia bearing members which iudicia bearingmembers may be changed from time to time inaccordance with the desiresof the user.

Another object is to produce a device of this character which is simpleto manufacture and one which may be economically assembled.

A further object is to produce a device of this character which is neatin appearance.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent during the course of thefollowing description.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, andin which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughoutthe same,

Figure 1 is a front plan view of my improved device,

Figure 2 is a rear view of the indicia hearing plate,

Figure 3 is a cross-section taken on the line 33 of Figure 1,

Figure 4 is a cross-section taken on the line 4:& of Figure 1,

Figure 5 is a fragmentary detail View showing the holding channel,

Figure 6 is a perspective View showing on of the indicia plates,

Figure 7 is a cross-sectional view showing two of the indicia plates ininterlocked position,

Figure 8 is a fragmentary detail view showing the manner of locking theindicia plates in the channel member, and

Figure 9 is a-modified form of my device wherein the same illuminationis employed for the two sides of the device.

There are many places where illuminated signs might be employed. buthave been omitted up to the present time due to their expense. I havetherefore devised a simple displaying device wherein the indicia orcharacters are stamped out in such a manner that the cost of productionis very slight and therefore, I have produced a device which is veryeconomical to manufacture and one which may be employed wherever itdesired to show illuminated figures or letters.

In the accompanying drawings wherein for the purpose of illustration isshown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral 5 designates aplate which is adapted to be attached to a housing 6. This housingmaytake any form desired, and forms no part of my invention.

The plate 5 has a window 7 formed therein to the upper and lower edge ofwhich are attached parallel channel members Sand 9. These channel.members are cut as shown in Figures 1 and 5, so that they may be bent aswill be hereinafter described.

These channel members are adapted to receive indicia plates 11, whichindicia plates are all alike and therefore but one will be described.This plate comprises indicia stamped therefrom as shown at 12. Up-- 7%turned ends 13 and 14 are each provided with a tab as shown at -16 and17, respectively, which tabs are bent over and upon a glass plate 18(see Figure 7). These tabs hold the glass plate 18 in position, whichplate serves to soften the light passing through the indicia opening inthe plate.

The sides of the plates are bent as shown at 19 and 21, respectively. Itis to be noted that the side 19 is merely an upstanding lip, while theside 21 is bent upon itself so as to prov izde a bend best illustratedin Figures 6 and With this construction it is possible to lock severalplates together as shown in Figure 7, and to then insert them into thechannels 8 and 9. After being inserted in the channels, the lugs '22 arebent down as shown in Figure 8, which lugs serve to lock the indiciaplate against lateral movement with respect to the channels. 2

When a sufiicient number of plates have been locked in the channels tocover the window 7, the plate 5 as a whole may be attached to thehousing 6 after which illumination, such as designated by the bulbs 23and 24:, may be turned on from any convenient source of supply.

In the form shown in Figure 9, the construction is identical with theexception that 1 an additional plate .26 is inserted on the oppositeside of the housing, which plate may or may not bear indicia, dependingupon the desires of the user.

While I have broadly set forth the device as adaptable for use inilluminating indicia, nevertheless, the preferred use of the inventionis for illuminating house numbers or the like. l/Vhen applied to thisuse, the housing 6 can readily be inserted in the wall or any desiredportion of the house, and thereafter the desired numerals can bevpositioned in the front plate.

It will be evident from this construction that any necessary indieia canbe readily purchased for displaying the street number of a house.

It is to be further noted that the form shown in Figure 9 cannot only beutilized for illuminating the house number, but also the glass platewillserve to "allow the illumination to pass through the rear of the boxso that this rear illumination can be utilized if desired.

It is to be understood that the form of my invention herewith shown anddescribed is to be taken as a preferred example of the same, and thatvarious changes relative to neeegwa the n aterial, shape, size andarrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from thespirit of the invention orthe scope of the subjoined claim. 7

Havingthus described my invention, I claim In a displaying device of thecharacter described, a plate having a window formed therein, parallelchannel members positioned on said plate, a plurality of indicia bearingplates, said plates having 'indicia out therefrom and having upturnedends, said upturned ends being provided with tabs for the purpose ofholding a glass plate against said indicia bearing plate, means forinterlocking several of said plates for introduction into said channels,and means carried on said channels for locking said plates to saidchannel, said last mentioned means comprising lugs struck from thevertical edges of said channel members.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature,

